sweepspear
n.— «Its styling, says GM interior design chief Dave Lyon, will feature modern interpretations of the Buick portholes (or “ventiports” as they were called in the “50s) and the “sweepspear,” the asymmetric v-shaped profile accent found on many of the brand’s cars in the ’50s and ’60s.» —“Invicta or LaCrosse, what should Buick call its new Epsilon?” by Todd Lassa Motor Trend: Car News Blog Apr. 14, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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A woman whose husband speaks Guaraní, Spanish, German, English, Italian, plus a bit of liturgical Hebrew, notices a curious thing happening while he was taking notes during lessons with a rabbi. As he jotted notes in Spanish and Guaraní, he used his...
Rich in Jackson, Wyoming, is searching for a word for using natural objects such as a rocks, driftwood, or antlers, as decoration. He considered the German Natur, “nature,” and Kunst, “art,” but it didn’t quite fit. Found object art has been used to...